Radical Leader Rallies Myanmar's Buddhists

By

Shibani Mahtani

July 3, 2013 1:52 a.m. ET

YANGON, Myanmar—A growing number of influential Buddhist monks here are allying with Myanmar's most radical religious leader, who preaches a doctrine of social exclusion against the country's minority Muslims, as anti-Muslim prejudice spreads across this fragile new democracy.

Thousands of monks gathered Sunday in support of the Venerable Wirathu, condemning a recent Time Magazine article labeling him as "the face of Buddhist...